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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Poison Island

Mysterious old Captain Coffin not only has a wild story about a Honduran island where treasure lies, he has a map. But they must be wary because it also holds “a poison that kills a man and keeps him fresh as paint”....

Daniel Goodson and 10 more 9 hours 10 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Rose Macaulay - Making of a Bigot

“How various is man! How multiplied his experience, his outlook, his conclusions!”—H. Belloc. “And every single one of them is right.”—R. Kipling. Written while Macaulay worked in the Propaganda Department of...

Rhys Lawson and 6 more 7 hours 31 minutes

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 8

Anthologies

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 8

The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering «American households a mass of good reading», the editors drew from...

Larry Wilson and 20 more 18 hours 9 minutes Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern

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Short Stories

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Im Bang - Korean Folk Tales

«To any one who would like to look somewhat into the inner soul of the Oriental, and see the peculiar spiritual existences among which he lives, the following stories will serve as true interpreters, born as they are...

Lynne T and 11 more 5 hours 23 minutes

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History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier, Part 2

Biography & Autobiography

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Charles E. Flandrau - History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier, Part 2

A series of stories written by Judge Charles E. Flandrau «at different times during his long residence in the Northwest, which embrace historical events, personal adventures, and amusing incidents.» This book of tales...

deongines and 8 more 4 hours 29 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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Thomas Mayne Reid - Death Shot

Long time since this hand hath penned a preface. Now only to say, that this romance, as originally published, was written when the author was suffering severe affliction, both physically and mentally—the result of a...

Larry Wilson and 11 more 16 hours 6 minutes

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Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Part 2: Urbain Grandier

True Crime

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Alexandre Dumas - Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Part 2: Urbain Grandier

This is the dramatic story of Urbain Grandier, a catholic priest, who had a reputation to rival that of Casanova, which ultimately led to his destruction. He was accused of witchcraft after a series of accusations...

JohannC and 4 more 4 hours 8 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Leonora Blanche Lang - Strange Story Book

A collection of stories compiled by the widow of the renowned children's short-story collector, Andrew Lang. She describes this as the final installment of his series of fairy stories and includes some of those...

Kalyn Heminger and 21 more 9 hours 54 minutes

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General Fiction

Wilkie Collins - Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time

Heart and Science is one of Wilkie Collins' didactic novels. It is the story of young doctor Ovid Vere, who fights for his love against all resistance of his family and their immediate circle of acquaintances. The...

deongines and 5 more 14 hours 32 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Micah Clarke

This book tells the story of Micah Clarke's adventures. As a boy he follows his rather romantic notions of what it means to be a soldier and how to find adventure. But over the course of his career, adventure finds...

Jim Lardner and 8 more 19 hours 43 minutes

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General

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables (Version 8)

In the first book of this classic series, Anne Shirley is an 11 year-old orphan girl who has never had a true home. Through an adoption mistake, Anne comes to live in the small-town of Avonlea where she makes new...

Anna and 13 more 10 hours 20 minutes Anne of Green Gables and related works

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General Fiction

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Henry James - Tragic Muse

Art or politics, this is the question Nick Dormer dealls with in the course of this novel. Mirian Ruth, an aspiring actress, is the «tragic muse» of the title. Her concerns are a bit different: would proper society...

shihping and 5 more 23 hours 15 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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